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This afternoon I'm here at the University of Edinburgh Business School in George Square to see Professor John Lee, of ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art and School of Informatics giving his inaugural lecture Learning Vicariously with Rich Media.
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We are being introduced to the lecture which celebrates the appointment of Professor John Lee to the post of Personal Chair of Digital Media. John works across both the School of Architecture and Informatics and blends those areas of expertise effortlessly. His interests include areas of design and cognition in design and learning and he has devised a method in order to film events and seminars by students so that they can be viewed again to reflect and engage that lecture which seems to have application across the university. And now over to Professor John Lee.
So this might be a confusing title on various levels so I will be coming back to that on various levels. I'll start by talking about rich media, what they are and why we don't make better use of them. Then I will be talking about vicarious learning, a topic that I and a number of other people have been working on for quite a while. And I'll be talking about how this interacts and connects and can exploit rich media and technology for learning. I'll talk about the system mentioned in the introduction, YouTute. And then I will talk about some further possible applications and future directions.
Rich Media Resources
What do I mean by that? Mainly audio and video really. Obviously there are many other types of media one might work with but I'm really interested in media which may be available, especially on the internet, media we can engage with. Audio and video are key but these media can be augmented by various other types of information – but they may be augmented by links, say to each other, or other forms of information or data. So annotation is a form of linking of media to other data. Tagging and cross referencing can be included. Commentary and discussion can be included. And there are a wider variey of internet resources that they can be connected to.
So when I talk about rich media I mean video, perhaps audio, but with these sorts of associated materials. And really rich media are not very common. The potential exists for exploiting these far more than they are being used at present, particularly in education. I think it would be useful to develop the potential for using these in a far more substantial sort of way. So I will not just be talking about my work in the past but also how we may use this sort of research to take forward these media in more fruitful ways.
Examples of rich media include YouTube which includes lots of less well known functionality such as annotation. So if we look at the video "hug the world" for instance we can see text and hotspots throughout the video. And those hotspots link to completely other videos. That is potentially quite useful type of thing that could be exploited, for instance in education. But they don't seem to be widely used. You don't see that many videos that use this functionality in videos on YouTube. Even those using video in teaching tend not to use these.
The other thing we see now is the capture of University lectures in video – like this one. Most lectures in Informatics, many others across the University and tools like iTunesU collate collections of videos of lectures. But it seems to me that these are not easy to use collaboratively or creatively. Looking at this video – it happens to be me lecturing – we can see indexes into the video automatically provided by seeing when the image changes. You can jump to various points in the lecture or a point where something is discussed in the notes. There are various different things one can think of that you could link to. So there is a useful layar on top of the lecture here – that's quite a useful layar of rich media. So we can watch the video and move around it but we can't do much else with it, we cant take pieces of that video and use them somewhere else for instance. The technical barriers seem overcomeable but something is stopping people making more creative use of this sort of video.
So I think we need new models of how to do this. Models of reusing materials in elearning is hardly a new topic. The old models are based on teacher-led creation of "learning objects". There are standardised systems for development and re-use but they have never really become ubiquitous. You can find all sorts of collections of these but people don't really use them that much. I think that's partly because they are not always that easy to use but also because they tend to be built by teachers and particular ways that teachers think. Quite often teachers differ on these things. So often you find that University teachers have a strong tendency not to reuse other University teachers' materials.
But i think we need to move away from that model and towards a kind of learner led recruitment of materials – from the web in particular. Learniers can search and discovery materials, to rework those materials and to share and collaborate around these materials to achieve search and discovery. And this is where we can see improvements. And technology can assist with the recruitment process here. So Google can help, the semantic web can help. But also within rich media there are opportunities opening up – such as the automated indexing of a lecture video. But there is more we can do as that's just quite a simple example. But perhaps we can look at the speech in the video, at what's happening in the video, what's on screen to automatically interpret rich media.
So we can move away from passive consumption and use rich media to support activity, reflection, construction in an inquiry-led processes and to support the development of distributed collaborative learning through social networking. In particular what learners need to be able to do with these materials is to get engaged with these materials in some way. And we need to enable this engagement for distributed learners – they may be distributed geographically, distant learners, or they may be distributed in a more social sense. But tehse learners may be those that it can be difficult to get engaged in the learning process. And one of the things we've looked at in the past is using engaging learners through vicarious learning…
So what is vicarious learning? Well it's learning from exposure to the learning experiences of others – e.g. students learn by watching other student's problem solving in class. e.g. mast classes, design crits, etc. So this is where students discuss a problem and there is an audience – that might be a small or a large audience. Even without active participation vicarious learning arises from active listening and watching, it's not just observational learning but active listening and watching, but it differs from observational, it's not solely about observing expert performance. So the audience doesn't just watch passively, but may not be part of the dialogue, but they are an active part of the process. So it's somehow based on access to the learning process.
And vicarious learning is something that is perhaps done using technology. For instance a learner can watch another person engaging in a learning process.
We had a research project that aimed to attack this problem, this was some time ago. This was work with several collaboratoes funded by ESRC/EPSRC with Terry Mayes, Jean McKendree, Richard Cox, Keith Stenning, Finbar Dineen. And the project focused on capturing dialogue around specific problems – so in such a dialogue the process is exposed. These dialogues would be rated for the quality of learning content, matched to specific needs of learners, implies use in a controlled perhaps "intelligent" environment, which was difficult, and often based on "task-directed discussion" (TDDs) – which don't always arise in tutorials.
The outcomes of this work kind of highlighted things like the benefit of exposure to student-student discussion. We were able to comapre these with tutor-student instruction, so if the tutor expounding material to students it was much less valuable to the students than a discussion in which the students perspective on the material was highlighted. If students discussed the material one found out how they were processing and understanding it. And students found watching "strugglers" most useful of all, though an uncomfortable thing to view.
The vicarious learning was effective in promoting reflection/discussion. And there seemed to be both cognitive and social benefits. And impact especially from modelling of dialogue skills and empathi identification with other students. There was less clear cut evidence for "domain" learning but there was potential importance for distance learning (and others), and it was an aid to "enculturation" into a disciplinary framework – exposure to the language and culture is harder to do in distance contexts on the whole. c.f. Laurillard, Schon etc.
Another collaborative project, VL-PATSy, funded by ESRC TLRP and working witH Richard Cox, Susan Rabold, Rosemary Varley, Julie Morris, Kirsty Hoben.
There was already a system called PATSy used with trainee speech therapists for diagnostic practice/training. This might include video, medical history, test results etc. These kinds of things could be augmented with other resources. And we augmented the materials with vicarious learning materials – TDD-based dialogues and interventions based on sophisticated student model. It was fairly effective but it was complicated and expensive to construct – it was a major 3 year project to set up and to repurpose it would also have been complicated and expensive. So we thought it might be more fruitful to try another approach.
So this other approach was around the idea of recycling stuff. Collating video recordings, of tutorial groups for instance. Then make these videos available to other learners – either automatically or manually by topic. And students could customise through selecting and annotating those videos. This is the idea which has become, with funding through the Principal's eLearning Fund, "YouTute". For this project we had Susan Rabold, Neil Mayo, Jon Oberlander, and Stuart Anderson involved.
So the idea was to recycle tutorial activity, captured on video. And then students would themselves be responsible for highlighting the useful aspects of these. We thought the effects might be enhanced if learners could edit the videos to pick out specific points, to annotate the videos to highlight issues, to rework the content for deeper learning. So looking at a capture of the main prototype system – this includes various video clips, notes from the session, topic and tags etc. This is an old version from perhaps four years ago but you can see we can view video of the whiteboard, we can see the tutorial roomm and we can see a camera looking at the smartboard. The students can actually use this to relive the tutorials in some sense. Either tutorials they were involved in, or those they weren't involved in but on a topic they are looking at.
One of our undergraduate students, Marcin Bot, suggested a redesign of the system – a more student friendly interface intended here, bigger buttons, access to segments of video etc. But he didn't feel this material was easy to rework particularly. This interface does help you access shared "tutes" (or create new ones) – these are the nuggets of tutorials on particular topics etc.
So this was quite a useful resource. We worked with it for several years whilst funded to do that. And some useful observations came out of that process. In particular that it was especially good for students who had failed the exam – they found it very useful for revising when away from Edinburgh. That seemed to be very useful for them. So I think this system could be taken forwaerd and developed. And improved with individualised tute collections, more developed social networking model, more interactive virtual editing of tutes, integration with recorded lectures, more streamlined collection and back end process etc.
So, I just wanted to finish by going back to the idea of really rich media. It's not really new. There is plenty of work on mashup and remix culture. There are things like iMovie, the Open Movie Editor, Diver (stanford) – this was developed in Stanford and it's quite a nice idea, it allows you to focus in on parts of videos, on some elements of a video and share that, jumpcut.com – used to allow you to edit online, it was purchased by Yahoo! and subsequently disappeared. But recently a thing called Adobe Premiere Express lets you do something similar – an online video editor. That's the sort of thing we should pay more attention to but this is proprietary and probably expensive [note from Nicola here: YouTube does also include the facility to edit video online now].
So in future I'd like to see the development of integration of these sorts of ideas with learning systems – I have an EU proposal in train at the moment. I'd like to see improved automated annotation of video – recent and current work in Informatics on segmentation etc, using speech and/or image processing. And we could see this applied elsewhere, such as in schools, such as work with Tom Kane of a local company called Prescience Communications. So recently I've been working with Tom's project and playing with the idea of a sequence of clips which you can move through, capturing the feel of jumpcut.com. This ability to personalise media in different ways would be useful for schools students in particular.
Q1 – Richard Coyne, ESALA) Seems to me there is an issue of professional presentation or lack of. These days you have kids recording themselves in their bedrooms with great charisma, great thought of setting. Does a lack of professsionalism in these environments matter?
A1) I don't think it does. So this work here is bringing external organisations into schools – in this case it was a discussion of the classification of films. It seems to me the important thing there is the quality of the discussion. The visual presentation isn't neccassarily a concern. So we had a top quality of speaker here, these are the things that matter really. Exactly how the film appears isn't neccassarily the first consideration here. If part of the discussion itself is
Q1) You and I might think that but what about the poeple this is directed at, the audiences.
A1) Well we'll find out. It seems to me that students and audiences etc. it seems to me that audience are hugely accepting of varying quality of recordings. That first content on iTunesU you'd have very mixed quality filming, discussion of tutorial arrangements etc.
Q2 – Simon Higgs, BPA) Play, we all know how important play is in early learning but presumably it is also very important in vicarious learning and I was wondering how this relates to rich media learning and virtual worlds and games as a rich media space for vicarious learning.
A2) Certainly many people have looked at games and learning, Serious Games etc. In the rich media context I'm not familiar anything specific on this but in this area it certainly seems to be important, mashing up materials is about learning and about play at the same time, there would be an inevitable element of play that would be motivating in that activity. But how one seeks to exploit that more actively I'm not sure.
Q2) I think Richard's comment about design is important there.
A2) Yes, you might be right. And one of the things that Marcin altered our design was to perhaps make it more playful.
Q3) I wanted to ask about incentives. Often things are most successful around examinations – so we get huge downloads of materials near exams, Youtube is heavily used then etc. What do you think you would need to incentivise wider use of these things? How do you reward students for co-producing materials that have high production values perhaps?
A3) One way of incentivising students is to give them some sort of credit for doing something, so that was one possibility that we considered at one point, that we could built some of these activities into their assessment. I would like to think that just the idea of sharing and co-create these things between each other, that this would be a resource to be their own in their own way would be motivating in itself. But I think it's an unsolved problem really in this area generally, as to how to get those online activities of community to work properly and then stop working – they fizzle out, people drop out of the activity. But that is an interesting and unsolved problem in elearning I think.
Q4) On that point it seems to me that this seems to be something we would develop top down, that we'd need to develop special systems for this. Don't you agree that this idea of students learning together and sharing artefacts is commonplace and is happening almost in a bottom up way, with people following each other on Twitter and so on.
A4) I agree to some extent but it's patchy. I think with better tools and better context we could help them to do that. I think with things like Twitter and specific Facebook groups etc. these things exist but they are isolated phenomena to some extent.
Q5) Some of your interfaces are very media rich, how easy is it to divide attention when you have that going on – notes, lecture video etc. What's important here?
A5) It's a good question here. The interface I showed to the online lecture, often you don't need the picture of the lecture, that's probably not what students will watch, mainly they will focus on the main screen, probably the smartboard. Sometimes you want to see what's being pointed at. The audio and main presentation screen are the main thing.
Q5) And diver with it's zoom in?
A5) Yes, I'd like to built that in. None of these things are terribly hard to do. It's not hard to code these things. It's interesting in a way to me that we don't see more being done with them.
Q6) I was quite interested in your comment about students learning more from struggling students – what going on there – is it that they make their process more obvious? is it about comparing your own understandings?
A6) Some of all of those. You benefit from seeing correction, from comparing understanding. It seems to me there is something quite useful about the affective side of this – empathy draws them in to focus on the solution in a way that a tutor with a blackboard wouldn't do.
Q7) It seems emplicit in the name rich media that these are good, these are rich! But I find I use video as little as possible – I'll see it if there isn't a paper that they've written. I'd love to think that students watch me lecturing on video as the best medium but I'm not convinced that that's not as valuable as looking the same thing up in a textbook.
A7) That's fair, not all media needs to be rich. There are a lot of situations in which various elearning tools are in use where a blackboard might be equally effective or better. I'm not saying these are the only or always the best way to do education but they do have a value. But they do have a value for distance learners and it seems to be that seeing video of an experience is useful for those that were not there in person. It's an attempt and not totally supplant other types of approaches but to make the best use of them that they can.
Q8 – Bruce Currie, formally of the Digital Design course) Enlightenment philosophers defacing images of god, the modern version of which might be the Taliban defacing images of Buddha in response to which it has been suggested that laser projections of Buddha to build peace. Do you see students using rich digital media to solve big world problems?
A8) I don't know, I hope they may.


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Fidelity Investments announced Thursday that trading began on 10 new Fidelity sector equity ETFs based on MSCI indexes and subadvised by BlackRock.
Each ETF has an expense ratio of only 12 bps, which Anthony Rochte, president of SelectCo, the company's dedicated sector investing division launched last year, said were the lowest in the industry. The ETFs will also trade without commissions for advisors using Fidelity's RIA and National Financial's trading platforms, though individual broker-dealers might impose their own ticket charges for trades.
In an interview with ThinkAdvisor, Rochte (formerly of State Street, a big player in sector ETFs) said the move was initiated in part by the changing way that advisors and end investors are building portfolios past the 2008-2009 crisis, with a greater focus on downside protection and on sector and industry investing. "Our focus is to capitalize on that in two ways," Rochte said, through Fidelity's 44 active sector mutual funds, which he said have seen consistently strong inflows, and through this new suite of "building-block passive ETFs."
In addition to the equity sector ETFs, Fidelity has also registered with the SEC to offer a suite of five actively managed fixed income ETFs which when launched will be managed by Fidelity's Fixed Income division. That reflects the fact that "SelectCo is not the ETF offering for all of Fidelity—there's no standalone ETF business within Fidelity," Rochte said.
While Rochte wouldn't speculate on whether international or global ETFs were on the drawing board, he did say that with its partner BlackRock it was exploring additional active and smart beta products. Referring to SelectCo, Rochte said that "if we're going to build a successful division, we need to offer both" active and passive vehicles.
Todd Rosenbluth, director of ETF Research at S&P Capital IQ, said in an interview with ThinkAdvisor that the Fidelity announcement is a major one that will competitively affect not only other ETF providers, but "also those with ETF platforms" offering commission-free trades for advisors, such as Schwab and TD Ameritrade.
Asked whether it will impact State Street's sector ETF business, Rosenbluth said, "I think it impacts State Street to a lesser degree" than other ETF providers such as Vanguard, partly because State Street's "sector SPDRs are so widely used and liquid." Because of those factors, "it's hard to compete with the SPDRs; it hurts them less than Vanguard." By contrast, "iShares gets a partial benefit from being tied to the 65 Ishares" that are already offered commission-free on Fidelity's platform. "It makes Fidelity's platform better, so more advisors may choose to work with Fidelity."
Many advisors, Rosenbluth says, "know Fidelity from a research standpoint," so being able to trade the new ETFs may well "give them different exposure to Fidelity," since part of Fidelity's apparent strategy is to "educate them through sector investing." Noting that given the "amount of money going to sector ETFs; they'll join that conversation," With the move, Fidelity "seems to be combining their research with their ETF strategies more closely."
Rochte said that advisors tend to use a core of mutual funds but also ETFs in client portfolios, he cited a recent Fidelity research paper that showed the importance of sector investing as a source of investing returns; sector investing was second only to "finding the right stock." That paper and a number of other written research reports exist on a special minisite on the Fidelity advisor site.
As for using MSCI indexes for the new ETFs, Rochte said that "what we heard clearly from intermediaries" is that they want the GICS—Global Industry Classification Standard—developed by MSCI as the basis for ETFs.
In addition to the MSCI indexes for the ETFs (see a list of the 10 below, with their tickers), Rochte expects advisors to be attracted by the new ETFs' low costs, saying that their management fees are "80% lower than the sector industry ETF average."
S&P's Rosenbluth acknowledged the appeal of the Fidelity ETFs' low costs, but cautioned that there are "nuances" among all the sector ETFs in the market including cap weighting, and that "cheaper isn't always better."
As for its overall ETF strategy, which includes the five active fixed income ETFs that Fidelity has already filed to offer, Rosenbluth said, "they're going to be doing fixed income in-house," and he says Fidelity may well offer smart beta ETFs as well, similar to Schwab's fundamental indexing ETFs. It's there, he suggests, that Fidelity "may be where they hope to differentiate themselves."
While Rochte declined to provide an asset goal for the new ETFs, he noted that ETFs are a $1.5 trillion industry ($1.44 trillion as of 6/30/13, says Nasdaq), though with "growth of 27% CAGR," which while paling in comparison to the $13 trillion mutual funds nevertheless are part of an important solution for advisors' portfolio building needs.
However, he argued that "mutual funds are the most appropriate vehicle in 401(k)s," since in such qualified plans there is usually no need for intraday trading and since ETFs are for the most part already highly tax efficient.
The 10 new ETFs cover the major industry sectors: consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, financials, health care, industrials, information technology, materials, telecommunication services and utilities. They are:
Fidelity Sector ETFs
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Fidelity MSCI Industrials Index ETF
Fidelity MSCI Health Care Index ETF
Fidelity MSCI Financials Index ETF
Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETF
Fidelity MSCI Telecommunication Services Index ETF
Fidelity MSCI Consumer Discretionary Index ETF
Fidelity MSCI Consumer Staples Index ETF
Fidelity MSCI Energy Index ETF
Fidelity MSCI Materials Index ETF
Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF

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- Hannah Anderson, 16, goes to a fundraiser in her Southern California community
- James DiMaggio abducted Hannah after allegedly killing her brother, mother
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Days after being rescued in the Idaho wilderness when an FBI agent shot her abductor dead, 16-year-old Hannah Anderson attended a fundraiser Thursday for her and her family near their Southern California home.
The teenager could be seen entering the Boll Weevil restaurant in Lakeside, a community of about 20,000 people located 20 miles northeast of San Diego.
Hannah didn't speak publicly before entering the building, though her father later did talk to reporters. The media were invited to the fundraiser at the family-friendly restaurant but were not allowed inside.
"This is a small community that we are a part of, and the community came together putting on this great fundraiser for Hannah and hopefully for her future and healing," Brett Anderson said, before he thanked local residents, family and friends, the media and law enforcement. "This is how Lakeside rolls."
Hannah went missing after cheerleading practice in San Diego County, California, on August 3.
The next day, the bodies of her mother, 42-year-old Christina Anderson, and 8-year-old brother, Ethan, were found about 45 miles east in the burned Boulevard house of James DiMaggio, who had been considered a friend of the Anderson family.
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"It was a chance encounter, but it did save my daughter's life," he said Thursday.
The dramatic ordeal ended last Saturday, after authorities spotted DiMaggio and his teenage captive's campsite near Morehead Lake.
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"Hannah sends her love," her father said. "She's doing good day by day, and we'll keep moving forward from here."
One of her friends, Alyssa Haugum, said from outside Thursday's fundraiser that she was looking forward to seeing Hannah in person and giving her a hug. They had communicated via Facebook, she said.
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The 20-year-old was hurt in a collision with Wolves goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann late in Saturday's Premier League stalemate at Molineux. Physio Mick Rathbone told the club's website: "Our worst fears have been confirmed. Dan has ruptured his cruciate ligament and will unfortunately be out for up to nine months." Gosling had only entered the action as an 83rd-minute substitute and was attempting to score a late winner when he collided with Hahnemann. The England Under-21 international has scored three goals in 17 first-team appearances this season. Everton have been hampered by injuries throughout the campaign. Mikel Arteta, Phil Jagielka and Victor Anichebe only recently returned after near year-long absences while Phil Neville, Tony Hibbert, Joseph Yobo and Leon Osman have all endured lengthy lay-offs during the campaign. Marouane Fellaini is currently sidelined after being ruled out for the season with an ankle injury suffered in the Merseyside derby in February. Manager David Moyes said: "I'm really disappointed for Dan. He's been making great progress here at Everton and we look forward to having him back as soon as possible."


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The Wub Machine is an online app that will automatically generate a Dubstep, Electro or Drum & Bass remix for any MP3 that you throw into it. And while it isn't particularly new, I'm still fascinated by what its little robot brain comes up with when I throw in arguably inappropriate songs, like Yakety Sax or the theme from Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.
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24 January 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Lignol Energy (LEC) to increase ownership in Australian Renewable Fuels (ARW) beyond 15 percent
Singapore: Lignol Energy (LEC) has applied for and has been granted approval by the Australian Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) to increase its ownership in Australian Renewable Fuels (ARW) beyond the threshold for foreign ownership of 15 percent.
FIRB is responsible for examining proposals by foreign persons to invest in Australia and makes recommendations to the treasurer on those subject to the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 and Australia's foreign investment policy. As a general rule, ownership of certain Australian publicly listed companies by a foreign corporation is restricted to less than 15 percent in the absence of FIRB approval.
"Our investment in ARW is an important component of our strategy of investing in complementary businesses in the renewable fuels industry", said Mr Ross MacLachlan, president and CEO.
"Being able to add value to such investments is an important component of that strategy and so our ongoing evaluation may lead either to an increase in the size of the investment, further complementary investments or business transactions or, under certain conditions, liquidating our investment. Receipt of FIRB approval gets us to another key stage of our evaluation and discussion process", he added.
On November 9, 2012, the company announced that it had completed the acquisition of an additional 88 million ordinary shares of ARW, increasing its ownership in ARW from 11.2 percent to 14.9 percent of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of ARW. ARW has subsequently announced that it plans to enter into a business transaction, which if successful will result in the dilution of LEC's equity stake in ARW to approximately 10 percent.


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TweetHub is a rich user interface built over the ECF Twitter provider using RCP.
Where to get it
TweetHub is hosted at ecf1.osuosl.org
- Module for provider: plugins/org.eclipse.ecf.provider.twitter
- Module for new TwitterHub UI: plugins/org.eclipse.ecf.provider.twitter.ui.hub
The following is a list of requirements for both the UI and provider levels
User Interface
- Provide the following views:
- Tweet (send message)
- Shorten the text as you type (Eat up vowels to reduce message length).
- Mentions
- Direct Messages
- Auto Reply? (I'm away on vacation)
- Sent Messages
- Favourites
- People
- Following
- Followers
- Stalk (follow without adding to "follow" list)
- Groups
- Search
- Trends - not sure how necessary this is!
- Tweet (send message)
Avatar actions Whereever the avatar appears allow:
- RT, Reply and DM.
- Tooltip displaying profile
Tweet View
- Tab completion in the Tweet view for all @ addressed users in your follow lists
- Provide a URL shortening service in the tweet view (e.g., tr.im)
- Provide a picture service in the tweet view (e.g., pic.im)
- Mark new tweets/read tweets
- Notification of new tweets, and new additions to search
- On mouseover of a shortened link, show the full link in a tooltip. (Maybe provide an option for this)
- Likewise for photo links, show thumbnail on mouseover.
- Perhaps provide a view of sent/recieved links?
- Provide a Translate option through Google Translate?
- Allow multiple accounts
- Spell checker?
- Support multiple microblogging services (identi.ca & private laconi.ca servers, others)
- Shorten URL
- Image upload (copy/paste, auto-upload to twitpic, other svc.)
- Update rate (keep in mind the Twitter API call limit of 100 per hour)
- Autologin
- System tray integration?
- Change the client name from Twitter4J to TweetHub
Currently we're working on part 1 of the plan. Help is welcome for any of the features below. Just let us know on the ecf mailing list, and we can put your name next to the feature.
Part 1: The Basics
- Allow sending of tweets [Done]
- Search
- Retweet [Done]
- Reply [Done]
- Direct Message
- Replies View
- Direct Messages View
- Decorate @tags with link
- Link #tags with search
- Mark as favourite
- View following/followers
- View profile in tooltip
- Add cache functionality (especially for images)
Bugs in Part 1
*Initial connect takes too long. Needs investigation (Francesco) [done]
- Need to sort messages by timestamp (James)
Part 2: User Assistance
- URL Shortening
- Tab completion in the Tweet view for all @ addressed users in your follow lists
- Mark new/read tweets
- Picture service/image uploading
- Trends
- Groups
- Favourites
- Preferences page
- System Tray Integration (Notifications)
Part 3: Killer Features
- Multiple user accounts
- Spellchecker
- Space saver (eat up vowels)
- On mouseover of a shortened link, show the full link in a tooltip. (Maybe provide an option for this)
- Translate option through Google Translate
Part 4: Zero Install
- RAP Implementation of TweetHub


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For young children, lying isn't necessarily a moral issue. Developmentally they lack the capacity to comprehend the broader implications. This ability kicks in from about age six to eight. So why do children lie?
The world of the young child is fantastical, laced with reality. With heads filled with fairy tales, gumdrop trees, and blue cartoon heroes, their thoughts muddle between what could be, and what is. Young children lie for several reasons.
- To socialize and impress. Listen to these three 4-year-olds in the nether world between truth and fiction:
David: "A fly flew right into my mouth!"
Reva: "I once ate a huge, hairy bug!"
Jeremy: "Last Summer this huge pelican came straight at my mouth! And … hit me with his elbow!"
Welcome to pre-school "socializing." Announcing they had a bowl of cereal isn't nearly as interesting as weaving an exciting fantasy. (And, well, pelicans may have elbows.)
- To express what they wish or hope for. By listening to the "lie" we can often hear what young children desire:
Benjy: "I got a blue Plasmacar for Hanukkah that lifts me up in
the air!"
Ariel: "The teacher said my finger painting was the best she ever saw!"
Jonah: "I have this Monster Robot who will do everything I say, and he even talks 'alien'!"
Clearly, Benjy dreams of taking off on a futuristic "magic carpet," Ariel seeks admiration, while Jonah is on a youngster's "power" quest.
- In fear and self-defense: How often, when faced with a broken toy, a small accident, a spill, have we heard our little "offender" counter with:
"I don't know how it happened!"
"I didn't touch her doll!"
"Maybe a robber broke it."
If telling a lie is "safer" than the truth, the young child will often choose what he considers is the path of least resistance.
Related Article: Will Your Child Grow Up To Be A Thief?
Helpful Responses to Small Children's Lies
Of course we want to raise honest children who understand that lying is not permissible. The first step, however, is understanding that their tales are not a moral defect. The second step is allowing our children to tell us the truth, without provoking more lies! Here are steps we can take to move them toward internalizing truth even at young ages.
1. Help them separate reality from fantasy. Now that we know their grandiose "stories" aren't a character flaw, we can stop "disproving."
"Benjy, you know that's not true. You didn't get a car for Hanukkah, and it certainly didn't lift you up!"
"Wow! You wish you had that fancy blue car!"
"You wish you could go anywhere, any time you'd like to!"
"Now, what did you get for Hanukkah?"
By dealing with the wish, we make it known that there's a difference between wishful thinking and reality without embarrassment or humiliation. The child is now ready to truth-tell without feeling defensive.
2. Allow children to tell us the truth – even the unpleasant ones. Our youngster tells us passionately: "I hate pre-school!"
"No you don't." "That's not nice." "You're a smart boy who will love school!"
"Wow! I see a boy who had a bad day. Tell me about it."
An ugly feeling from our children hurts us! Yet when we rush in to deny we inadvertently teach "denial" and discourage "truth." Allowing the feeling invites truth, and more conversation to help our child look at different perspectives and perhaps modify.
"Ah … so you had an argument with your best friend. That's tough. So, who did you play with?"
" Rebecca. We went on the slide."
"That must've been fun."
"Yeah. I'll ask her again tomorrow."
3. When young children "cover" their obvious mistakes or naughty behavior we don't ignore it. We call them on it without provoking even more defensive lies.
Four-year-old Adam broke his LeapFrog computer when struggling to take it from his three-year-old sister, Lisa. He quickly threw it in the attic, where it was not only further smashed, his parents found it.
DAD: "Where's your new computer?"
ADAM: "Hmmm. Dunno."
DAD: "Well, find it!"
ADAM: "Maybe Lisa stole it."
DAD: "She did NOT steal it. YOU BROKE IT. You're lying. I hate liars!" then spanked him.
DAD: "I see your new computer is broken. Too bad. I know you liked it. Maybe if I'd seen it earlier I could've helped fix it."
ADAM: "Can I have another one?!"
DAD: "'Fraid not. It was expensive, and needed to be taken care of."
This dad above didn't get hysterical, prophesize or preach. He stayed practical and factual. Adam learned that a) I can tell Dad the truth without catastrophe; b) It might have been in my best interest to do so; c) I need to take care of my things.
If we, as adults, model truth by accepting it, understand what our child is communicating, react calmly, teach that escaping consequences through lying is only a temporary and not acceptable "fix," and realize that in short order he or she will understand the moral implications, we can not only relax a bit, but help them on their way to decent, honorable Jewish behavior – that doesn't involve orange jumpsuits.


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The drama llama has been making his usual rounds of the Internet, kicking up a minor dust cloud about Wikipedia's funding model. A blog report on Wikimedia Chairwoman Florence Nibart-Devouard's recent speech in Geneva alleged that Nibart-Devouard warned audience members that Wikipedia could "disappear" once its current three-to-four month funding cushion runs out. Bruno Giussani laid out the real, less dramatic facts, but the story has revitalized an ongoing debate about Wikimedia's current ad-free existence. Is it sustainable?
The Wikimedia folks believe that it is. A recent call for donations has already grossed more than $1.1 million, much of it in small individual donations. Nibart-Devouard told Giussani that "I don't worry about the future," and Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales tells Ars much the same thing. "We have every confidence in the current model," he said in an interview. "Raising enough money to keep Wikipedia going is a big job, but we feel confident that we will continue to be able to do it."
Though Wikimedia has less than ten full-time employees, it has real expenses. Bandwidth in 2007 is expected to cost up to $100,000 a month, and the group now runs more than 350 servers. Will the necessary money continue to flow in from donations when so many 'Net users have grown used to getting content for "free"?
Not everyone thinks so. While Wales wants to keep Wikipedia free of ads and corporate influence, others say that this is exactly what the site needs to grow and ensure its financial stability. Weblogs Inc. CEO Jason Calacanis has been harping on Wikipedia for months, arguing that the encyclopedia could rake in as much as $100 million a year with only minimal advertising.
He says that this plan of his was explained to Wales at a dinner the two attended. Wales' response: "But regarding this dinner with Jason, well, I am told that I did have dinner with him. This was at Wikimania this past summer, and I barely even remember him—we were at a large table and there were some very much more interesting people at the dinner." Despite ending that last sentence with a smiley, Wales and Calacanis don't seem to think much of each other's position.
Ars asked Calacanis if he thought there was any value to keeping Wikipedia unsullied by the engines of crass commerce. He responded by charging that "Jimbo Wales has a fringe, anti-corporate bent to him, and it's holding Wikipedia back." He also charges Wales with wanting to profit privately from wiki advertising through his recent Wikia venture, while preventing Wikipedia from doing the same.
In a Calacanis-run world, Wikipedia would feature optional advertising—that is, users could simply choose not to see it. Such a plan would allow some users to donate directly to Wikipedia, but other users could "contribute" by choosing to view some ads as they used the site. "Firefox makes $50 million+ a year from Google Adsense," he says. "Is there anything wrong with Firefox? Have they been corrupted? NPR and PBS have sponsors and have their services been corrupted?"
Wales responds that it's not his decision to make. Though he personally dislikes the idea of advertising on Wikipedia, any decision to utilize ads would have to come from the community. At the moment, he won't rule anything out. "I can't say if I would ever support something like that," he tells Ars, "but I can say that I currently maintain the same position I always have: I am opposed to it."
So for now, the current Wikipedia finance model remains in place. As Nibart-Devouard indicated in her speech, the group currently has cash reserves for three to four months of operation, and there's no danger of a shutdown. Donations continue to pour in, the staff is minimal, and the Wikipedia brand is too powerful to simply disappear into the ether if money ever does get tight. So long as donations keep pace with the site's growth, the current model works fine.


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7. Gyasi Zardes
Pos: F | LA Galaxy | Age: 22
After starring at CSU Bakersfield for three years, Zardes has stepped into the star-laden LA Galaxy lineup and fit right in. Bruce Arena has used him as a regular starter since late May and he has played no less than 83 minutes in each start. The 22-year-old forward – who scored 38 goals while at Bakersfield – first hit the back of the net coming off the bench on May 11 and has been a change of pace to the Landon Donovans and Robbie Keanes of the Galaxy attack. Arena said in late August that Zardes "gets better every game."
What TDs and coaches like: "Physically imposing. Before he was more than anything else a forward with a lot of speed and things like that, but right now they have him playing left midfielder. He's more disciplined, more tactical, more aware of the game. ... He has the possibility to make it to the next level. ... He's definitely an up-and-coming prospect. The future is great. The future is very bright. ... He has all the tools and he's playing with good players around him. That is invaluable when you put a younger player with Robbie Keane or Landon Donovan. He's in the right place. Size and everything else matters. ... Athletic. He's got soft feet for a big man. He's proven at the college level that he can score goals in bunches. Right foot, left foot. Scores with his head. He's certainly a guy that's got tremendous upside moving forward. ... He's got size, speed, athletic ability. He's dangerous one-v-one on the dribble. In a lot of ways he reminds me a little bit of Eddie Johnson when he was younger – he's kinda been billed on ability. He's a handful."
Where TDs and coaches want improvement: "He's young. He's still making mistakes. That's a normal process of development for him. ... I think one of the weaknesses that we've seen with him is maybe he doesn't play as big as he is, so I think getting a little bit stronger and being able to handle those individual, physical battles is something that he's going to need to get better at. But overall assessment is the kid has huge upside and has the ability to be a real big star in this league for a lot of years. ... It's obvious that there are going to be things in his game not as refined – maybe he's not as clever in a situation of managing a game, and maybe it's a decision of when to take a player on and when to keep the ball. So there's definite growth there, similar to Eddie Johnson and you can see how he's matured. I think Zardes will go on that same path."
Opta Says: Zardes leads all players eligible for 24 Under 24 with 7.5 touches in the attacking penalty box per game during the 2013 season.
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|Castrol Index (as of 9/19/13): #69
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|Matches played: 21
|Matches started: 17
|Goals: 3
|Assists: 1
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British Media again tentatively questions official line on bombings
The reconstruction: 7/7 - What really happened?
London Independent | July 17 2005
the four bombers being controlled or acting alone?
Why did they buy return tickets if they were intending to die?
Could MI5 have found out what was happening and stopped it?
Was an al-Qa'ida suspect allowed to travel to the UK unwatched? The unanswered questions of the London attacks BY Cole Moreton
Suicide bombers do not buy return tickets. Theirs is a one-way trip. When four young men met at Luton railway station a week ago last Thursday, however, they gave every impression of going to London and coming back. They paid and displayed, leaving valid tickets on the windows of a Nissan Micra and a Fiat Bravo in the station car park. They boarded the 7.48am to London carrying return tickets.
Why would they do that, if they knew they would be dying very soon? The car park can be explained: perhaps they did not want to attract attention or get stopped. But the question of the train tickets has no obvious answer, unless the bombers were not aware that they would be among the casualties at Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross and on the No 30 bus. They may have thought that they could leave their deadly bags on the train or the bus and walk away, merging safely into the crowd by the time a detonator set off the plastic explosive they called Mother of Satan to kill and maim in those enclosed spaces. Or were they told the bombs would go off later than they did?
The police think not, and reject suggestions that the men were duped, but such questions remain as they and the security services try to piece together what happened on 7/7 and - crucially - what it means for the future. Will it happen again, soon? Have other terrorist cells been activated now? Were the men really working alone?
Three of the men who stepped off the train at King's Cross Thameslink station at 8.20 in the morning of 7 July were from Beeston in Yorkshire, where tidy terraces are punctuated by boarded-up homes and money is scarce. They had driven down to Luton in the very early hours in a hire car.
The youngest was Hasib Mir Hussain, a tall, bulky young man of 18. He had got into fights with local boys in the past, and been cautioned for shoplifting, but otherwise was known for his love of sport and an evolving passion for his faith. Four years ago, after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, he had started to change. Some former fellow pupils at the then Matthew Murray Comprehensive claim he handed out leaflets justifying 9/11, but family friends say no, the changes in him were more subtle than that. "His family had an idea he was involved in a different kind of Islam from theirs, but I don't think they realised the depth of his conviction," said one. Lately, though, Hussain had become isolated from his family and friends, not least because he was avoiding the local mosques and travelling to a Bangladeshi one in Dewsbury instead. That was a big deal in a community so self-contained.
Dewsbury was where Mohammed Sidique Khan lived. He was the oldest of the four men who met that morning. The 30-year-old had been brought up in Beeston, where he was known as Sid, but he moved south after meeting Hasina Patel at Leeds Metropolitan University and marrying her. He still kept up links with Beeston, working as a classroom assistant and mentor to immigrant children in a local school, Hillside. He was patient, said the staff, and great with the kids. But there was trouble at home. As Khan became increasingly serious about his religion he clashed with his wife, who had far more liberal views about family life. The marriage, which had not been arranged by the families, was not approved of by his mother-in-law.
The couple split up a year ago, just before Khan went on sick leave in September 2004, said to be suffering from depression. He finally resigned from the school in December. Visits to his wife and 14-month old daughter Maryam became less frequent, although as he made his journey to London 10 days ago his wife was heavily pregnant.
Beside him was Shahzad Tanweer, 23, the funny, sport-loving son of a man from Faisalabad in Pakistan. His father, Mumtaz, was a former special constable and now a respected member of the Hardy Street mosque, who ran a fish and chip shop called South Leeds Fisheries. After studying sports science at Leeds Metropolitan University, like the others Tanweer had visited Pakistan to see relatives and study the Koran. He attended Markaz-e-Dawa, a madrassa or religious school in north Pakistan for three months, ending in February, but came back early saying he didn't like the people. His nickname in the family was Kaka, or baby.
Filmed by the closed-circuit cameras at the station, the four men looked, the police would say, like "happy hikers", laughing and joking and ccarrying heavy bags.
The fourth man was a little different from the rest, and he did not come from Beeston. Germaine Lindsay, 19, was born in Jamaica but brought up in Huddersfield. Big and strong, he was keen on martial arts and boxing but also had a gentle, playful side to his nature, according to those who knew him. But he grew more distant from them after converting to Islam and changing his name to Abdullah Shaheed Jamal. He married Samantha Lethwaite, 22, from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, and she converted as well. Her family did not like that, or the burqa she wore.
When Lindsay and his wife moved to Aylesbury with their year-old son this year, they kept their distance. Lindsay had driven to Luton from Aylesbury that morning, also in a hire car. He was meeting men he knew from Leeds, where he had lived for a while and worshipped at the Grand Mosque.
Within minutes of being caught on film, they would be dead. Lindsay would die on train 311 just outside Russell Square; Tanweer in the third carriage of train 204 at Aldgate and Khan in the second carriage of train 216 at Edgware Road. Hussain would die on the No 30 bus in Tavistock Square. They took a lot of people with them, and caused a lot of pain.
Should they have been stopped? Was there any way the security services could have known about what was happening? Was there a mastermind who did not die in the bombings?
The police seem to think the answer to that last question is yes. One story being told around the Met is that a fortnight earlier a Special Branch officer spotted a Pakistani who was on a "watch list" as a potential member of al-Qa'ida entering the country through a sea port. The police officer told MI5, which decided not to track the suspect because he was low risk and it could not justify the massive resources demanded by 24-hour surveilance.
So nobody knows what the man did in Britain, but he flew out from Stansted airport just before the attacks. Did he give the orders? If so, was he also in contact with other potential terrorist cells in this country? However, that is just one version of the story. The security services, stung by the idea they let someone come and go under their noses, stress that there is no evidence so far to link the four bombers with any other person.
The police were adamant, in the aftermath of the bombings, that these had been "clean skins", people with no previous criminal records known to the security services. There was just one caveat to those police statements that went almost unnoticed: one of the men had come to their attention during a previous, unspecified operation.
This may have been what the French Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, was talking about when he told journalists - in an off-guard moment - that "part of this team" had been subject to "partial arrest" in the spring of last year. Mr Sarkozy had only just been briefed by the British Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, who was livid at his comments. They were "completely and utterly untrue", he said. A Home Office statement added that none of the men had ever been arrested or detained as part of an anti-terrorist operation.
That may well be true. But The Independent on Sunday can reveal that Khan did have links - including telephone contact - with an individual who came to the attention of police and security services last year during Operation Crevice, a major anti-terrorist operation in which properties across the Home Counties were raided. A large amount of explosive material was discovered in those raids. A security source reveals that MI5 was so overstretched at the time that it had to ask for agents from its sister force, MI6, to be recalled from abroad to help keep track of suspects. Although Khan's name came up during the course of inquiries, he was not questioned. Now, a convicted member of al-Qa'ida held in American custody has said he recognises Khan.
"We are not above criticism," says a security source. "When the dust settles ... we will look to see how these people got through our net."
Balthazar Garzon, a Spanish expert in the prosecution of terrorists, has described a "second generation" of extremists who have no history of affiliation to al-Qa'ida or any other organisation, but form loose, spontaneous groups based on personal relationships. Al-Qa'ida is their inspiration, their "ideological reference point" rather than their boss, although they may seek out its help.
The London bombers were born in the country they attacked, unlike any previous terror cell known to be active in Europe. Far from hiding their identities, they had documents on them that made it clear who they were. They did not, as far as anyone knows, finance their terrorism through crime. All this suggests that they were almost mourned as victims rather than the perpetrators, their guilt underplayed.
Hussain was indeed recorded as
a victim when his mother called the police casualty hotline just after 10pm
on the day of the bombings. His brother, Imran, had been trying to call
his mobile for ages and getting no response. A police family liaison officer
visited the home in Colenso Mount to take details, as with so many of the
victims. The Hussains gave the names of the "mates" their son
had gone to visit London with. They were desperately worried.
When the name of Mohammed Sidique Khan was entered on the police computer, and his link with Operation Crevice came to light, detectives must have caught their breath. Was this the break they needed? The security services stress that there was a huge amount of information coming in to them after the attacks and that there was "no silver bullet".
But the phone-call theory would explain the speed with which they moved to identify the bombers and pursue anyone connected with them. Cash cards and a driving licence belonging to Hussain were found among the ruins of the No 30 bus. Documents belonging to his named friends were also discovered at the Underground bomb sites.
On Monday, police trawling through CCTV footage found him standing with the others at King's Cross. Early next morning their homes were raided, along with a local community centre where a controlled explosion was carried out. Police also raided 18 Alexandra Grove, a neat, recently built house in a leafy neighbourhood that is much better off than the down-at-heel back-to-backs of Beeston. Close to the university, it has a large student population. There are a lot of people coming and going, and visitors are much less conspicuous there than among the tightly knit communities of Beeston.
The four-bedroomed flat on the third floor of the house is owned by the Leeds Federated Housing Association. The telephone number of a man renting it is said to have been found stored in a mobile phone owned by Hussain. The flat was raided on Tuesday morning and police found several kilos of "potentially dangerous" chemicals stored in a bath. These are thought to have made the acetone peroxide, the explosive used in the London bombs, which is dangerously unstable.
Reports suggest that forensic scientists have been able to place all four of the bombers at the flat. They have also linked it with Magdi Mahmoud el-Nashar, a 33-year-old Egyptian bio-chemist who was arrested in Cairo on Friday. He had recently left Britain after completing five years study at Leeds University. The Egyptian authorities insist that he has nothing to do with al-Qa'ida. His arrest came on the same day that the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, mused: "What we have got to find is who encouraged them, who trained them. Who is the chemist?"
Were the bombers set up? That would explain reports of a man on the bus rummaging frantically in his bag just before the explosion. Did Hussain hear about the other explosions and panic? A neighbour who knew him said he had become a follower of Salafism, the stricter Islamic code based on practices from the earliest years of the religion. Who took advantage of his zeal for their own ends? Are there other young men like him in this country, waiting for the signal? Sir Ian seems to think so. He says there is a "very strong possibility" of further terrorist attacks.
Was Lindsay introduced to the others by a terrorist matchmaker, possibly to lead them? The others had grown up on the same streets. It was inevitable that they would run into each other at the local mosques, the youth club, or on the fields of Cross Flatts Park where Tanweer was playing cricket and football with his friends just a day before his death. These are streets where families know each other's business, and they are far more likely to talk about it among themselves than to disclose such things to strangers. Some say Khan, the oldest of the group, was a mentor to Hussain and Tanweer. Terrorism analysts would call this the role of "gatekeeper", the one who radicalised his recruits and knew how to obtain the means for an attack. However, locals say it was Hussain - the youngest but the biggest and possibly the most hot-headed of the four - who was the driving force.
At the heart of the community is the Hamara Healthy Living Centre, funded by the council. Its new building was opened in 2003 by Hilary and Tony Benn. It is only a few hundred yards from where Khan and Tanweer lived and half a mile from the home of Hussain. All of the men are said to have used the centre's facilities, although separately. Its former "youth access point" in Lodge Road has been closed for at least six months, but some locals say the bombers met there in secret, behind the graffitied steel shutters.
The key-holder, Naveed Fiaz, also worked at the Iqra bookshop selling radical Islamic material. He is currently in custody at Paddington Green police station. His home in Stratford Street was sealed off on Tuesday. On Thursday, armour-clad bomb-disposal experts sent robots in to the youth access point before carrying out a single controlled explosion. The Iqra bookshop was raided the following day and, like all the other buildings, searched for clues.
Some people in Beeston think Fiaz was the one who tipped off the police about the involvement of Khan, Hussain and Tanweer in the bombings. They suggest he is being held in custody for his own protection. This, however, is only a rumour. There are so many of those, as people struggle to understand why it was their neighbour or friend who made that journey to London with a bomb on his back. And as the police and security services try desperately - publicly and invisibly - to find out if there are any more.
The nexus of terror: how Pakistan became a world hub of extremism
Not for the first time in the war against terror, virtually every new turnin the investigation of the London bombs points to Pakistan. Every major al-Qa'ida figure in custody was captured in Pakistan. Though Pakistan's authorities deny it, senior Taliban figures are said to be living openly in the country.
Now Mohammed Junaid Babar, a Pakistani-American held in New York last year for attending a "terror summit" in Pakistan's Waziristan, has told US authorities he knows the London bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan. Another, Shahzad Tanweer, is said to have visitedreligious schools in Pakistan.
Faced with renewed global scrutiny, President Pervez Musharraf on Friday ordered police to stop banned militant groups holding meetings and thus gave a clear indication that the groups continue to enjoy public support.
President Musharraf's problem is that until 11 September 2001, Islamic militancy enjoyed official support. Pakistan took over what the Americans had started, when they backed the mujahedin fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Once the US lost interest in Afghanistan, Pakistan adopted the networks of militants. It used them to fight the Indians in Kashmir, and to install the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
But September 2001 made President Musharraf rethink his strategy. He managed a spectacular U-turn, siding with the US against the Taliban at great personal risk.
Public support, however, remains strong and factions in the military and the ISI, Pakistan's intelligence service, retain links to militants. Some believe Bin Laden has evaded capture only with assistance from elements within the ISI.
Justin Huggler
Pakistan: Region by region
Peshawar/North-west Frontier Province/tribal areas
Most likely hiding place for Osama bin Laden. London bomber Khan identified by US-held al-Qa'ida man who attended 'terror summit' in region last year. Terror training campsinclude a religious school, known as 'the University of Jihad'
Capital of Pakistan. Westerners among those killed by grenades thrown into church in March 2002
Four arrests yesterday after visit to city by London bomber Tanweer during one of his stays in Pakistan. Abu Zubaydah, said to be Osama bin Laden's chief of staff, captured in April 2002
Pakistan's military HQ. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of 9/11 attacks, captured here the following year. Scene of two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf
Former Taliban leaders said to live openly in city, which has close links with Kandahar, their former headquarters. Pakistan's secret services presided over the birth of the Taliban here in the 1990s
Two arrests yesterday in wake of London bomber Tanweer's alleged visit to madrassa near Pakistan's second largest city. Capture of al-Qa'ida computer expert Naeem Noor Khan last July led to wave of arrests of alleged al-Qa'ida figures in Britain
Country's largest city. Hotbed of militancy and sectarian strife, possible refuge for bin Laden. US journalist Daniel Pearl kidnapped and murdered in operation masterminded by Briton Omar Saeed Sheikh. Bomb attacks on US consulate and French naval personnel killed 24 in2002. Senior al-Qa'ida figure Ramzi Binalshibh caught months later


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Another year of pain as Maroons make it eight straight
"It's gr8 m8, 8 St8 of Origins in a row".
Get set to endure another 12 months of texts and tweets like that after the Maroons extended their Origin domination to eight consecutive series wins.
Watched by a new ANZ Stadium record crowd of 83,812, the Blues came so close to ending the streak but again fell agonisingly short as they did when a Cooper Cronk field goal decided last year's series.
In the end, discipline cost NSW as the Maroons two tries to Johnathan Thurston and Justin Hodges - the best player on the field - came on the back of penalties.
A 13th minute Thurston penalty goal utimately proved the difference between the two teams in what proved to be another epic battle between the two states that was thankfully devoid of controversery after the brawling that had marred the two opening matches.
Early on, the signs had looked ominous for another comfortable Queensland win as the Blues gave away silly penalties and turned over posession.
Mitchell Pearce, who had declared that his Origin career was likely to be over if he couldn't steer NSW to a series win, set the tone when he dropped his first touch of the ball in the third minute.
Worse was to come when Greg Bird conceded a blatant penalty for holding down Sam Thaiday on halfway six minutes later and Johnathan Thurstons stepped his way over for the opening try.
Blues skipper Robbie Farah complained that he had been impeded from getting to Thurston by Nate Myles but the reality was that the poor NSW defence had allowed the Maroons five-eighth to score.
Another penalty, this time against Blues five-eighth James Maloney for shouldering Cooper Cronk after a kick, enabled Thurston to extend the lead to 8-0 in the 13th minute and the match appeared destined to go the way of Origin II when Queensland led 14-0 after 17 minutes.
As the NSW players headed back to halfway for another kick off, the tackle counts of the respective teams were 57-to-38 - meaning the Maroons had enjoyed more than three sets of additional possession to the Blues.
But the match changed with the injection of forwards Anthony Watmough and Andrew Fifita from the interchange bench and the Blues finished the first half on top everywhere but the scoreboard.
Remarkably, the penalty count at the interval was 6-2 in favour of NSW and the errors were even at four apiece.
What those statistics don't show is how the Blues failed to take their opportunities as they threw wayward passes or dropped the ball to let Queensland off the hook.
After Farah had regained the ball from his own kick following a Billy Slater knock-on near the Maroons line, the next pass went to no-one and NSW lost possession.
A Maloney kick put down by Greg Inglis also provided the Blues with no real advantage after Luke Lewis lost the ball on zero tackle.
James McMannus finally put the Blues on the board in the 25th minute after back-to-back penalties against Queensland when he finished off a sweeping movement involving Pearce, fullback Josh Dugan and Josh Morris.
But McMannus was denied a second try just two before halftime when his wing opposite Darius Boyd just managed to get downward pressure on a Farah grubber kick bouncing in the Maroons in-goal.
There were more wasted opportunities for the Blues early in the second half, with Dugan being unable to hold a Fifita off-load as he sped into the clear and Michael Jennings twice dropping the ball.
Queensland deserve credit for their defence to hold NSW out through sustained periods before and after halftime, and Hodges was a key figure in snuffing out several tryscoring opportunities for the Blues.
The 28-year-old centre deservedly crossed for the match winning try in the 64th minute after running onto a perfectly timed pass from Cronk.
Blues prop Trent Merrin scored in the 71st minute but Queensland hung on to continue a winning streak that begun in 2006.
QUEENSLAND 12 (J Hodges J Thurston tries J Thurston 2 goals) bt NEW SOUTH WALES 10 (J McManus T Merrin tries J Maloney goal) at ANZ Stadium. Referee: Shayne Hayne, Ben Cummins. Crowd: 83,813.
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This page has been created for several reasons.
This page is the primary place to announce new suggestions. Whenever possible, issues should be discussed in a more appropriate place, such as the discussion page of the article or category that the suggestion affects. Once suggestions are resolved, they are moved to Knowledge Base changes/Archive.
You can request somebody create an article at Requested articles .
Welcome to new editors
Hello! Great to have you here. Please add a comment here :-)
Knowledge Base changes
A discussion by interested parties regarding the MozillaZine Knowledge Base, in the context of planning for improved Mozilla end-user support, is taking place. Details at http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.planning <snip> Forum discussion of end user support, including the KB, here. Alice 12:34, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Update: Minutes of the end-user support meetings were posted to the mozilla.support.planning newsgroup, along with an announcement linking to drafts of a Firefox Support Overview and Support Product Requirements Document. Proposals related to the KB include one log-in for forums and knowledge base management, account levels (admin, senior moderator, moderator, senior editor, editor, volunteer) as well as analysis and metrics to include top viewed articles (problems). Division of articles into "How To's" (tutorials or best practices initially populated with content from "Firefox Help") and "Troubleshooting" ("support" that helps users solve problems) was proposed, with the troubleshooting section being initially populated with MozillaZine Knowledge Base content that will be organized in a tagging structure that incorporated most frequently accessed questions. Creation of KB style guides and editorial approval processes for content and style were also proposed. See http://wiki.mozilla.org/Support:PRD#Knowledge_base_requirements for details. Alice 10:57, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
SUMO use of MozillaZine KB articles
Update: There is a current discussion taking place here concerning how the official Firefox support (SUMO) KB should credit content derived from MozillaZine KB articles. Alice 22:40, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Screenshots - confusion?
I'm worried about us posting screenshots of dialogs to describe how to do something and some poor granny trying to actually click on buttons in the screenshot. What can we do about this?--Np 16:59, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Application specific articles
I've noticed a recent trend towards having more articles be application specific. My first impression is that this seems to be due to
I've frequently pushed for Thunderbird specific versions of some articles, including one for Profile_folder but I have mixed feelings about this trend. There are some cases where it makes a lot of sense to address multiple applications in one article. I'm also concerned over what effect this has on whether editors who tend to focus on browser specific articles will continue working on the mozillaZine knowledge base after Mozilla creates their own for just Firefox. Thoughts?
As an aside, does anybody object to my creating a calendar category? Tanstaafl 22:28, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Removing obsolete information
I notice that some articles, such as Multiple_SMTP_servers_-_Thunderbird have multiple sections for obsolete versions. I suggest we add a rule of thumb that such text should be removed if its for a version thats more than two major releases ago to In-house_style . i.e. since Thunderbird is at 184.108.40.206 keep the text about 1.5 or later but dump the 1.0.x text if it simplifies the article. Tanstaafl 01:18, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
I have no problem with the rule about removing obsolete information but I don't think it belongs in the In-house style article, which mainly covers things like commonly used terms, formatting and punctuation, tables, and other style issues. I think that a rule about removing obsolete information is more about keeping KB articles technically accurate and up-to-date and would fit better in the Rules and guidelines article, which already includes a "Quality" section and "Technical information" subsection. I think that the "Removing obsolete information" paragraph would fit in better there, either as a subsection of "Quality" or as a separate section. Alice 12:32, 11 February 2008 (UTC) P.S. I added a section to Talk:In-house style for discussion. Alice 13:04, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Prep for switch to new web site
We're getting closer to switching to the new web site. Kerz has stated he'll enable automatic account creation when we switch. See this thread for more details. He has created a subforum for the knowledge base, so we won't be limited to just talk pages and this article when discussing some issues. He has offered (in the moderators forum) to move a small number of threads to the new web site if they're identified ahead of time. However, given the recent history of lost accounts and the fact nobody has started to make a list of the threads I suggest we assume the worst, and start migrating information in any referenced threads into the article. It will also give us a chance to make the information more up to date and easier to find/read. After the move we can update any links to dedicated discussion threads for extensions/themes. Does this seem reasonable?
I notice Alice has converted the request for comments template in preparation for the move. Any other changes that we should think about? Tanstaafl 01:19, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
KB articles to update for the new website
All articles in the Category:MozillaZine_Knowledge_Base_organization should be reviewed for needed updates. If I find any articles outside of that category I'll post them here. Alice 13:08, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
IMAP category
I'd like to add a IMAP category. We're seeing more new IMAP users due to Gmail, its awkward for new IMAP users to find many IMAP-centric articles when they don't have the right vocabulary, and I'd like to write some more IMAP-centric articles. I don't see any need for a corresponding category for POP - its the mainstream. We already have a Calendar , a Newgroups (Thunderbird) and a RSS (Thunderbird) category. Any objections or concerns? Tanstaafl 12:42, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
KB account creation
I've created a mozillaZineKB at gmail dot com account to handle new account requests, sent the password to all SysOps (except for np who has publicly stated he's not interested in handling requests), and updated the login page. We used to average only about one request every two days before, and the login page encourages users (if they have a forum account) to request a knowledge base account using the moderation requests thread in the mozillaZine site discussion forum. Thats practical now that most moderators are also SysOps. However, we probably should come up with some conventions to avoid problems due to multiple people reading a message requesting an account. Its a IMAP account by the way, I figured that would make it easier to monitor. Tanstaafl 20:20, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Related KB article: Create_a_knowledge_base_account Alice 12:45, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Use of color
A discussion was started asking for for opinions on using color in KB articles. Please post any comments to Talk:In-house style#Use of color. Alice 22:40, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Using external sources and references in KB articles
I've moved the discussion about using content from other sources and referencing certain material to Talk:Rules_and_guidelines . Tanstaafl 08:38, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Copyright/License problems
I suggest we think about adding a short "Copyright/License problems" section in Rules_and_guidelines that sets peoples expectations on what they can legitimately copy/modify. I'm splitting this out as a separate topic from "Using external sources and references in KB articles". Please discuss this at Talk:Rules_and_guidelines . Tanstaafl 08:32, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
In-house style: Special formatting
There is a current discussion about whether to change the In-house style guidelines for special formatting for folder and file names and paths. It has been suggested to use italics instead of monospace font for folder/file paths. Also under discussion is whether to add a new guideline covering when and how to format preference names; bold text has been suggested. Please add any comments to the In-house style discussion page under Use of monospace font for path folder and file names and Preference names. Alice 15:11, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Consolidate show hidden files and directories information
Its been archived after Show_hidden_files_and_folders was created. Please continue the discussion about the article and how to use it at its talk page. Tanstaafl 08:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Using AMO links instead of author's website whenever possible
Asked in Talk:Updating_add-ons: A question though. Some of the pages here link to AMO, others to the author's website. Is there a rule of thumb to be followed here? I answered that I don't see a rule in Rules and guidelines and that I've been using addons.mozilla.org links wherever possible, for security reasons and because the install will go through seamlessly from AMO while installing from another site may trigger a yellow message bar, asking the user to allow the site, unless the install link actually goes to AMO. Should there be a rule to use AMO links for add-ons whenever possible, if an AMO link can be found? If no one has any thoughts on the matter I'll just assume that no rule is needed and it can be left up to whomever is editing a page. Alice 01:45, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
I posted a link here in Talk:Rules and guidelines. Let's wait a a few days for more comments then, if no one objects, I can add a short "Add-on links" paragraph under Rules and guidelines#Article content, simply saying, As a general rule, link to addons.mozilla.org (AMO) whenever possible, instead of linking to the author's website or elsewhere, unless you have a good reason to use an alternate link. Alice 17:56, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Alice. I didn't think to post the question here. I agree with everyone else here -- AMO should be it. --LoudNoise 20:37, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Rules and guidelines#Add-on links section added. Alice 15:37, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Extension listings in the Knowledge Base
A request for a KB account from an extension author
This brings up an interesting question. I assume that we don't want the KB to become a marketing tool. However, why does Adblock and Chromedit have articles in the KB? Should they be removed?
This isn't meant to suggest that the folks behind Adblock or Chromedit are doing anything shady.
--LoudNoise 17:41, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Malware scanning and removal tools
Dick, you mentioned in the extensions listing discussion, that Popular categories are probably malware/spyware scanning/removing programs..... An article about spyware and malware scanning and removal tools, with links to security forums, would be a great help for people whose Mozilla applications are showing malware-related symptoms, maybe under the Category:Privacy and security (which already includes an Antivirus software article)? It could include links to other articles that talk about malware issues such as Firefox.exe always open and Unable to search or add new engines. Alice 02:16, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
The Firefox.exe always open is very special (Poison Ivy) and the other two articles I know of (Popups_not_blocked#Spyware_on_Windows and Unable_to_search_or_add_new_engines#Spyware_and_malware that mention malware are not easy to find. Recently there have been a lot of occurrences of Vundo and doing a malware scan with some programs never hurts. I wasn't aware of the Antivirus_software article (it says that it is for Tb and Moz Suite, shouldn't that also mention SM?). I think that Category:Privacy and security would be a good place for such an article (maybe something for Daifne?). --Dickvl 03:36, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Please keep in mind the big fuss we had in Antivirus_software where one person turned it into a soapbox against using anti-virus software. Lots of people have strong opinions about which tools to use, and may also write disparaging comments about certain vendors such as Norton/Symantec. I suggest the article have a short section setting expectations on whats acceptable. Tanstaafl 03:08, 20 July 2008 (UTC)


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The secret to this salad is using big, juicy sweet onions like the Vidalias that Linton Hopkins favors, which get nicely charred on the grill.
How to Make It
Preheat the oven to 325°. In a small bowl, whisk the mayonnaise with the sour cream, buttermilk, mint, parsley, chives and vinegar and season with salt and pepper. Refrigerate.
Line a large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Arrange the bacon slices on the sheet in a single layer and sprinkle with the brown sugar and cayenne. Bake for about 25 minutes, until caramelized (the bacon will crisp as it cools). Let cool, then cut the bacon into bite-size pieces.
Meanwhile, light a grill or preheat a grill pan. Brush the onions with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Grill over moderate heat, turning occasionally, until softened and browned, 10 minutes. Separate the onions into rings. Brush the peaches with olive oil and grill over moderately high heat until tender, 2 minutes. Transfer to a plate.
In a large bowl, toss the onions with the peaches and bacon. Add the buttermilk dressing and toss to coat. Serve right away.